Despite a huge volume of protests against the Embassy of Islamic Republic of Iran holding its dinner party tomorrow at Kensington Town Hall, the Tory controlled council today refused to heed to all the protest emails and phone calls and has allowed the pro-Ahmadinejad organised event to go ahead. In the beginning the booking officer Matthew Brown (matthew.brown@rbkc.gov.uk) expressed his astonishment that the event was organised by the embassy. Matthew Brown claimed the council was told a non-political ‘cultural group’ had booked the Town Hall for the event and asked for evidence contrary to this understanding.

Monday, 1 March 2010

This book came up in an e-mail exchange with a friend, but I couldn’t find anything online to explain what it was I was talking about, so here I am hauling out the scanner, no longer at its best after my attempt to repair it with Super Glue.

This introduction to atoms for the very young was published in 1970 by Hutchinson of Australia, and was one of a series of picture books on physics written by Noel Wilson and illustrated by Raymond Smith. Others titles were If I met a molecule, If I were an electron, If I were radioactive, and If I were energy.

Below, a selection of spreads from If I were an atom. Click to enlarge.

Some more atomic art: Hans Bacher posts some illustrations from the book of Disney’s Our friend the atom, and The Poor Mouth has some 17th Century atomic poetry by Margaret Cavendish, of which there is much more here.